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F-41 Longsword - Coloring

mwace

on July 30, 2009

Coloring is my favorite part! Here you can see how I decided to do the shading first; solid three-tone shading (regular color, shadow, and bright) is an important part of the manga-feel of my comic's style, particularly when my sketches and contours are so realistic.

I did something here that I won't do in the future: I used the broad tip of the 40% Grey Prismacolor (the regular color of the jet's body) to lay down a very smooth streak-less solid coat in large areas like on the wings and in between the shadings on the engine bulges, all while avoiding the edges. But once I began coloring close in to the ink from the broad coloring refused to blend seamlessly with coloring around the edges. The effect is subtle but the rest of the drawing ended up so perfect that it became more obvious then I wanted it to be, so I just aspired to fix it in Paint Shop Pro.